Wordless Wednesday: Brothers

Fitness Friday: Week 8

Original Starting Weight: 223

Last Weigh In: 143

Current Weight: 143

Pounds lost since last weight in: 0

Total Pounds Lost: 80

I'm really amazed that I didn't gain anything. My appetite came back in full force and I've been wanting to eat almost everything in site. The weather has been really glorious this week, so I've been able to get out with the boys a few times for a nice walk.

The Color Run on Sunday was amazing.

(before)

If there was any run to do after being sick this one was it.

(running...slowly)

It was super relaxed. I think there were some people that walked a majority of the way and just enjoyed the fun.

(purple insanity)

John and I ran the kilometers in between stations and caught our breath while walking through clouds of color and throwing colored powder at each other and everyone else.

(John thinks this picture looks like we survived some sort of rainbow zombie apocalypse)

The race ended with a Color Festival at the end. Every 15 minutes there was a great explosion of color.

(color festival. the little boy next to me was celebrating his birthday. how cool is that?)

I really don't think I've ever seen so many happy people in one place.

(thousands of happy colorful people)
We cannot wait to do it again next year!!

(after)

Have a happy and healthy week!!

A Year Ago Yesterday - 2.20.2011

It's been a while since I scrapped anything so yesterday I challenged myself to do a page using pictures from exactly a year ago. Munch looks so little in these pictures and poor little Nox was probably strapped to my chest while we were at the park so he didn't even get a cameo appearance. It was fun looking back and scrapping year old photos.  

created using Feelin' Froggy kit by Scraps by Andrea and
 Piece It Volume 7 template by Scrappy Cocoa

Fitness Friday - Week 7

Original Starting Weight: 223

Last Weigh In: 144

Current Weight: 143

Pounds lost since last weight in: 1

Total Pounds Lost: 80

Yesterday I weighed in at 142 and then I had a great day of being able to eat 3 WHOLE meals. They weren't anything to write home about, but they were meals and I didn't have any nasty side effects! I hope I can keep my lost pounds off, but as long as I can eat and work out again I don't care.

It's supposed to be rainy the next couple days so there may not be much of a chance to squeeze in any kind of training for The Color Run on Saturday. I'm going to try and do a couple Walk Away the Pound sessions and then Sunday I'll just run what a can.

We have to pick up our packets on Saturday and I need to make sure we have white shirts. I bought a white t-shirt but now it's supposed to be cold, so I'm thinking I might need to hunt down a long sleeve shirt. Other than that and packing a camera, towels and a change of clothes, I think we are as set as we are going to get.

I am still super excited. It won't be as I imagined, but it will still be amazing and fun. Can't wait to share next week.

In other news:

Kaiser is back home from doggy boarding school. We had an hour with the trainer on Wednesday and I have high hopes that everything will be so much better now. When we were leaving he actually met 3 large dogs in the lobby. I could tell he was DYING to play, but he obeyed the trainer and sat nicely while he was waiting for us to finish up. Our homework is to do a lot of training walks with him around the house. We need to focus on heel, sit and stay. I've also learned the magic of "leave it". We have four classes with a trainer coming up. We totally have to retrain ourselves, which will be lots of work, but we can do it. I'm so happy to have my sweet boy back.

Looks like starting Saturday we'll have mostly sunny days! Which means getting back to walks and runs. Would be nice to get back on track finally!

Hoping everyone has a happy and healthy week!! 

Embroidery in Progress

After searching through some free embroidery patterns and some patterns I already had in my stash John helped me pick out a good project to complete.

This Til' Death pattern from Urban Threads is the one we settled on.

For this pattern I used General's Iron On Transfer Pencils for Fabric. I have used transfer pencils before, but I don't think these were it. It took several tries to get a halfway decent transfer onto my fabric and even then it was a little wonky. I had to wing alot of the pattern for my female skull, but I this so far it's turned out pretty well. I'll use the pencils again, but probably only if I have a simple design to work on.

I can't wait to finish it. The plan is to frame it and hang it next to my awesome spool cabinet.